If he'd somehow missed the strange red light that pulsated on the ground, the following flames and the blast of bright light were enough to make his heart beat faster and his mind start to race as panic began to set in. What was it? There was someone else in the room with him, that much was obvious. It was also coming toward him, walking like something half-dead.

He tried to make his legs move, but they wouldn't. His right arm was mostly uninjured, but his left was broken beyond repair. The most he could hope for was to drag himself away in a pathetic half-crawl.